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Just Listen to Yourself 2017

Biography

Peter Cooley, Louisiana Poet Laureate, has published nine books of poetry, most recently Night Bus to the Afterlife. A native of the Midwest, he has lived over half of his life in New Orleans, where he is Senior Mellon Professor in the Humanities and Director of Creative Writing at Tulane University. He will have a new poetry book World Without Finishing out next year.

Selected Works